Sunday, December 02, 2012
I surprise myself sometimes - a review I still thought I hadn't saved onto my USB was sitting there all pretty and waiting for me today. So here you go.
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
IN author Anne Tyler’s world,
businessmen who loathe travelling are serviced well in the United States
through Baltimore travel writer Macon Leary. His books on how to minimise the
experience are meant to be how to best avoid people politely but equivocally
undermines social interaction.
Lawrence Kasdan’s adaptation has
William Hurt as Macon, whose marriage to Sarah (Kathleen Turner) falls apart a
year after the death of their son. Keeping their dog after the divorce, Macon trains
him with the help of Muriel (Geena Davis in an Academy Award-winning role).
Kasdan puts one of cinema’s most awkward characters to screen with Hurt exuding the socially inept writer. The comedy emerges from this particularly as we’re introduced to his kooky family post-divorce. But Davis’ happy-go-lucky Muriel is just as effective as Macon’s polar opposite, helping him find a new side to himself both personally and professionally.
The film has a sense of great
attitude about it, serious but comical in concurrence. Opposites really do
attract in this instance, and mixed with a story that travels in all sorts of
directions before reaching the final destination, you do feel like you’ve been
on a journey with them.
*Published in the Mailbox Shopper (Dubbo) on Wednesday 21/11/2012
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